In which year was the infamous 'Guns for Antigua' scandal?

The Guns for Antigua scandal was a political scandal involving the shipment of Israeli-made weapons through Antigua to the Medellin drug cartel (Senor Gacha) in Colombia. The affair was exposed following the discovery that several murders in Colombia had been perpetrated with Israeli guns that had been shipped through Antigua and were ostensibly for the Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force.

The weapons were loaded on the Danish ship 'Else TH', which sailed from Haifa on 28 March 1989, bound for Chile via the Panama Canal. It reached St John's, Antigua, on 24 April and unloaded a container carrying the guns. The 'Else TH' was primarily loaded with weapons for government troops in South America, including Colombia, and Antigua was a convenient first stop. However whilst the 'Else TH' was at sea, Diego Viafara Salinas, Gacha's physician, had defected to the Colombian security services and had produced a video apparently showing training camps being run for Gacha's cartel forces. This meant that the training school on Antigua could no longer be used to launder the guns for Gacha but because the shipment had already been paid for, a Medellin-owned ship, the 'MV Seapoint', was diverted from Haiti to Antigua to pick up the container with the guns to be delivered to Gacha. The 'MV Seapoint' arrived and collected the container, before dumping it on a deserted beach in north-west Colombia where the ship also picked up a 2½ ton shipment of cocaine.